[GreenKeys] The New RTTY Journal ceases publication

[Don Robert House]

>Greenkeyers,
>
>The recent issue of The New RTTY Journal arrived with with a letter 
>saying that this is the last issue, after 50 years of publication.
>
>The following is from their  website, <http://www.rttyjournal.com/>:
>
>"The New RTTY Journal, Volume 50 Number 4, completes 50 years of  publication.
>
>Declining reader interest dictates that it is time to close the New 
>RTTY Journal.
>
>CQ Amateur Radio magazine has agreed to honor existing New RTTY 
>Journal subscriptions, exchanging CQ subscriptions for the dollar 
>value remaining on your RTTY Journal subscription.
>
>Please contact CQ Communications, Inc., 25 Newbridge Road, 
>Hicksville, NY 11801 (516-681-2922) if you have any questions about 
>your new CQ subscription.
>
>For RTTY contesting information, please refer to Don Hill AA5AU's 
>RTTY Contesting website.
>
>CD archives of the RTTY Journal will be available and maintained by 
>Wayne Matlock later this year.
>
>Thank you one and all for your support.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bill Henry K9GWT
>RTTY Journal Editor (1998-2003) "
>


It is very sad Roy.  I must say that I read every issue from cover to 
cover, usually more than once..  The information was always first 
class and the publication was composed very well.  I am sure CQ is a 
good magazine, but not being an amateur radio operator, I doubt I 
will renew the subscription.

I hope all of the issues will eventually be available on CD-ROM.

Maybe someday I will start a newsletter called Greenkeys and try to 
put interesting notes and information for folks to read.  It could 
include "Tales of the Teletype Repairman" and other fun stuff.

Food for thought.

Don